Prince’s
“Musicology” Tour will be unlike any other before it because it will be
blazing the trail for a new type of entertainment: satellite concerts.
These one-time only events, deemed “satellite concerts”, will allow
movie theater patrons all over the United States to watch Prince’s
March 29 show from Los Angeles’ Staples Center. The concert will be
projected on the big screen and presented in fully digital sound. Also,
everyone who buys a ticket to attend one of the events will receive a
free copy of Prince’s “Musicology” CD. (This is worth the price of a
ticket in itself because Prince has not decided on a distributor for
his CD so it is not available in stores as of yet.)

If more artists follow in Prince’s footsteps, the satellite concert
trend could take off , and I don't think anyone would mind. Artists
would get more exposure and revenue, theaters would benefit from
increased traffic, poor college students would get to see concerts
without taking out another student loan and people could rock out
without putting their hearing in the hands of drugged up sound
technicians. This new outlet for entertainment could be just the thing
that will allow more consumers to benefit from music, not just those
who can afford absorbenently priced concert tickets.

The event will take place at Regal Cinemas, United Artists Theaters and
Edwards Theaters locations throughout the United States on Monday,
March 29. Tickets are available at each theater’s box office as well as
on www.regalCM.com
and will be $15. Tickets bought the day of the show will be $17.50.
Here is a list of theaters that will play host to the “Musicology”
satellite concert: